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Willie Keil's Grave in Raymond, Washington
Willie Keil was born to Heinrich Wilhelm Keil and Louisa Moffit Reiter in 1836. A Prussian immigrant to the U.S., Wilhelm Keil established a utopian religious community based upon communal living and...
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Coldrum Long Barrow in Trottiscliffe, England
This ancient burial site, also known as the Coldrum Stones, was built 1,000 years before Stonehenge. The site is situated just below the Pilgrims Way at the foot of the North Downs. The ruins are...
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Mozart Has Sold More CDs in 2016 Than Beyoncé
The artist who sold the most CDs in 2016 hasn’t toured in over 200 years, but is still more famous than Drake. According to a report on Billboard, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a massive comeback this...
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How to Blend in at an Alpine Krampus Parade
Nothing rings in the holiday season like a parade of demented yak-like demons wielding whips, smoke bombs, and a chainsaw or two. Welcome to Austria’s Krampusnacht. The modern Krampus story goes like...
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How a Former Cheney Aide Nearly Killed the Christmas Tree Industry
Back in the early 2000s, the Christmas tree industry was in distress. Artificial tree imports kept rising, threatening the livelihoods of domestic tree farms. The situation spiraled so out of control...
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Stećci at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, Bosnia...
Stećci (singular stećak) are monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina and the surrounding areas. There are tens of thousands of these inscribed stones scattered around the...
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Smith Chapel in Durham, New Hampshire
Nestled among a characteristically quaint rural New England neighborhood, which abuts the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham, Hamilton Smith Memorial Chapel is a curious hidden gem of local...
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Gaze Upon the Faded Glory of Route 66’s Signs
When, in 1926, a new highway called U.S. Highway 66 was opened between Illinois and California, few could have envisioned its future cultural importance. It was promoted as the “shortest, best and most...
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Found: The Highest Wave Ever Detected by a Buoy
There was a strong cold front, and the wind picked up, faster and faster, until it reached 50.4 mph. This was over the ocean recently, between Iceland and the U.K., off of the Outer Hebrides, the...
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Piper's Opera House in Virginia City, Nevada
Virginia City was not only a big, splashy Warner Bros. movie and setting for the TV show “Bonanza,’ but back in the days of the Comstock Lode it was an important stop on the western theater circuit....
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Roman Theatre of Cartagena in Cartagena, Spain
The fascinating remains of this Roman theatre is quickly becoming one of the historic buildings that symbolise the ancient city of Cartegena.The theater was built between 5 and 1 BCE, and for centuries...
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So There's a 47-Year-Old Burger Sitting in the Alberta Legislature Building
Budget debates aren’t always the most interesting of processes. But a single throwaway gesture made in the middle of one, more than 45 years ago, led to one of the strangest items you’ll find inside a...
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Squirrels In Toronto Can't Stop Attacking Christmas Lights
Every year, the residents of North York, Toronto look forward to the holidays, when the trees around the skating rink in Mel Lastman Square are draped with festive lights.That is, at least, until said...
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How to Appease Household Spirits Across the World
If you're lucky, you can live in a home where a hairy little household imp will help keep your kitchen clean, or a domestic god will grant you everlasting good fortune. So long as you keep them...
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The Incompatible Food Triad Is The Most Delicious Philosophical Problem Of...
Mathematicians live out their days haunted by many questions. They may wake up some mornings already trying to prove the Hodge Conjecture. They may travel to work ruminating: Is every number greater...
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St Mary The Virgin in Clophill, England
There’s a pleasant circular walk around Clophill, but what is most interesting in this old English village is the abandoned church, St Mary The Virgin, built around 1350 just outside the main...
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How Phallic Cakes Became the Mascot of a Conservative Portuguese Town
Drums echo through the cobbled streets. The air is thick with the smell of doughnut grease, sugar, and freshly-baked pastries. Festive lights flicker overhead while a group of townsfolk in traditional...
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Javier Puerta Museum of Anatomy in Madrid, Spain
The Universidad Complutense of Madrid is one of the oldest universities in the world. Its story begins as far back as 1293, when the Archbishop of Toledo was granted a charter by King Sancho IV of...
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When a Physicist Asked the FBI to Stop Calling Because He Helped Make the...
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.Richard Feynman’s sprawling FBI file covers two-thirds of the physicist’s legendary career, from drama over his invitation to speak at a...
View ArticleWatch a Hungarian Masked Monster Parade
Every February in the Hungarian city of Mohács, goat-horned monsters and mysterious women in lace masks parade through town, jangling bells and twirling noisemakers. This is Busójárás, a national...
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